Sa'id Hawwa

Sa'id Hawwa (1935-1989) was a leading member and prominent ideologue within the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria. He was one of the leaders of the 1979-1982 Islamist uprising in Syria.

Biography
Sa'id Hawwa was born in Hama, Syria in 1935 to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he was instructed by Muslim Brotherhood of Syria leader Mustafa al-Siba'i at the University of Damascus while studying Islamic law. Hawwa himself became an Islamist and a teacher, and he found himself persecuted by the Ba'athist government, alongside other Muslim Brotherhood leaders. From 1966 to 1971, Hawwa lived in exile in Saudi Arabia, and he was imprisoned back in Syria from 1973 to 1978 due to his opposition to Hafez al-Assad's government. Upon his release, he went into exile in Amman, Jordan, and he died there in 1989.